From: "Albert L. Wagner" <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-03-20T01:03:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Development of Windows version of Ruby

Jason Voegele wrote:
> 
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> 
> But if certain P languages support those features it makes it look as if it
> is Ruby's failing.  I think that's the issue people are referring to.
>
I understand. But other posts on this thread have hit the nail on
the head: Why do  windows users expect *nix users to do this for
them?  Ruby is in fact, like other scripting languages before
them, a *nix application, offered to the community for free.  The
windows community has the skills to make this port.
> 
> > I personally could care less if Ruby ever gets popular on
> > windows.  After all, you have VB, right?
> 
> Some of us *have* to use Windows--corporate "standards" and other such
> nonsense--but choose to use Ruby.  I like Ruby, and wouldn't touch VB with
> a 10 foot Python.
The suggestion to use VB was of course facetious.
>
I too *have* to use windows at work, but I have no problems with
Cygwin.  I think it was the *nix smell of Cygwin, that put the
windows community off.  If you want a "pure" windows
implementation of Ruby then have at it. My remarks about windows
are driven by a sense of outrage that I cannot/will not repress. 
I am perfectly willing to suffer without the use of all of the
fine Open Source software that has it's genesis on *nix, if it
makes windows more unattractive.  My ardent hope is that Gates
will cut off his nose to spite his face by finding some way of
keeping Open Source software from running on windows at all.
> 
> Jason Voegele

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